Elvira

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Spanish name

1) Spanish form of an old Gothic name Guilvira ^{[1] [2]}

2) Spanish form of a Visigothic name, combination of ALI and VERS ^[3]

3) From an Arabic name meaning 'exalted' (very uncertain theory) ^{[1] [4]}

4) Female form of Alvaro (very uncertain theory) ^{[1] [4]}

5) Spanish form of a Germanic name, combination of ALA and VIS (see also Alvíss) (very uncertain theory) ^[1]

6) Spanish elva = 'white' (see Albinus) ^[5]

7) Spanish form of an Arabic name meaning 'white' (?) ^[6]

Related Names

Elviira	♀
Elvir	♂
Elvira	♀
Elwira	♀
Elvire	♀

See also Alvira, Ella, Elva, Elvi, Vira

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

27 June

Sweden

1 March

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Elvira
Accusative:	Elviru
Dative:	Elviru
Genitive:	Elviru

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1808 ^[6]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[7]		4691	14202	0	0
Denmark[8]		539	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[9]		338	455	0	0
Finland[10]		n.a.	5493	n.a	2
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^{[7][8][9][10]}:

Sources: ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
4. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
6. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi